La tassa sul morto

December 1911, the war in Libya, a bitter and difficult war of conquest declared by Giovanni Giolitti and King Victor Emanuel III, spreads its negative effects in the countryside of rural Sicily reaping victims among the peasants and creating a crowd of widows eager for revenge and justice. Prominent among the faces of the women, intent by now on filling the roles of their husbands in the war, is that of Rosalia, a reckless and tenacious woman who, fighting for the conquest of her own freedom, will challenge the institutions and power.Diego Aleo leads us, through Rosalia, to a harassed land, where the din of war leaves in the homes of the poor people a melody of death and injustice. A land where even religion, winking at power, forgets the last, leaving them alone before the pitfalls of their time.But, as in a game of mirrors, the encounter between the characters will reveal unseen nuances, hidden desires and the awareness that they have lived their lives in the deception of evil that sprinkles with good intentions the road to hell or, in this case, war.It will be up to Rosalia, aided by the young parish priest of the small country town, to bring back hope and dignity among her people so that they can finally ‘say yes to life, the one that generates peace, the one that knows how to distinguish good from evil.’